on one hand, if you've been following news about Substack at all, this is not particularly surprising:

November 2023: Substack has a Nazi problem

January 2024: Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

but on the other hand...this is the kind of thing that will be surprising to a lot of people who aren't savvy media consumers. if they thought about Substack at all they probably thought of it as just "that website with all the newsletters".

many of those people had the Substack app installed on their phones.

they got a push notification. the icon of the push notification was a swastika.

imagine looking at the list of notifications on your phone and just...seeing a whole-ass swastika.

I would compare this to the time Elon Musk called that cave diver in Thailand a "pedo guy". he was a shitbag before that, he was a shitbag after that, but that was still a watershed moment when a lot of people had the sudden realization of "oh, huh, this guy's a shitbag".

Substack has been a Nazi bar for a few years now. they started allowing customers of the bar to hang up flags on the front patio. today was the day they hung up a Nazi flag.

Why don’t payment processors go after stuff like this🤔

I have an addon called uBlacklist, it blocks substack from showing up in search results. And I have it blocked in uBlock Origin as well. Anyone on the Fediverse promoting it also gets blocked. It's nice to erase nazis from your feed and their enablers.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250425/ also has a good list of grievances

My knee-jerk reaction to that kind of headline is always to start mentally typing out a response warning of inflationary use of the term "Nazi", but... er yeah, I guess that's a Nazi blog alright.

"I'm not a Nazi, but twenty bucks is twenty bucks."

--Substack, probably

Substack just annoying as can be anyway, with the constant spammy pop-ups about subscribed to my newsletter and whatever the hell else. Absolutely atrocious blogging platform

There is a deep irony covering this by writing about it.. on Substack

As a German it's completely mind boggling to me that some societies tolerate an ideology that is responsible for plunging the world into its biggest humane catastrophe (so far), for the sake of free speech. Nazi ideology wants to kill free speech. If you truly want to protect free speech, you have to at least limit it to all the things that do not threaten it.

I cringe everytime someone's like "subscribe to my Substack". No, fuck off with your substack, everyone knows they're nazi supporters, you're complicit.

Wtf even is substack anyways?

I see a pattern here...

I deleted substack back when I randomly got porn in a push notification. You'd think they would address this - I'm no expert, but this doesn't seem good for them.

My only cursory knowledge about substack is that if someone has one they're insufferable. Have yet to be wrong.

Hey look at that... actual bad socialists. (As if they're actual socialists)

It's a shame there are some people I like on there. I can live perfectly fine without ettingermentum though.

if i had a nickel for every time substack promoted a nazi blog.......

... i'd have a shitload of nickels.

Is there a substack self-hosted replacement

Yeah I heard they give voice to nazis. Sucks because I kninda liked Sunstack and was going use it. But after this fuck no. Need to delete my post there and unfortunately have to unfollow some good Substack people.

Huh fucked up that this article is also from Substack any other media outlets promoting this?

Edit 2: It's done deleted my account on there fuck nazis and nazi platforms. Luckily I had copy over my article on my computer. Anyone know a good place to post such things?

Archive link: https://archive.is/lQzS5

It's even worse, they're explicitly defending hosting Nazi blogs.